Postage metering system
AssigneeNeopost Indutrie SA
InventorWilliam Herring
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Abstract
A postage metering system for applying indicia including postage value on mail items, the system including: a keyboard for inputting information; a printer for printing indicia; an accounting module for accounting for postage value applied to mail items; and a security module for requiring a user to input an operating code prior to further operation of the system, the security module being configured to compare the input operating code with at least one stored valid operating code, and, where the input operating code and any stored operating code do not match, one or both of log data relating to such use and report such use to a security center.
Claims20
a postage metering system for applying indicia including postage value on mail items, the system including:
- a keyboard for inputting information;
- a printer for printing indicia;
- an accounting module for accounting for postage value applied to mail items;
- and
- a security module for requiring a user to input an operating code prior to further operation of the system, the security module being configured to compare the input operating code with at least one stored valid operating code, and, where the input operating code and any stored operating code do not match, deny use of the system and one or both of log data relating to each such attempted use and report each such attempted use to a security center.
A postage metering system for applying indicia including postage value on mail items, the system including:
- a keyboard for inputting information;
- a printer for printing indicia;
- an accounting module for accounting for postage value applied to mail items;
- and
- a security module for requiring a user to input an operating code prior to further operation of the system, the security module being configured to compare the input operating code with at least one stored valid operating code, and, where the input operating code and any stored operating code do not match and printing of an indicium is requested, cause the printer in a printing operation to print an indicium having a zero postage value and one or both of log data relating to such operation and report such operation to a security center.
A postage metering system for applying indicia including postage value on mail items, the system including:
- a keyboard for inputting information;
- a printer for printing indicia;
- an accounting module for accounting for postage value applied to mail items;
- and
- a security module for requiring a user to input an operating code prior to further operation of the system, the security module being configured to compare the input operating code with at least one stored valid operating code, and, where the input operating code and any stored operating code do not match, allow normal printing of indicia including postage value and one or both of log data relating to such use and report such use to a security center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.